By New Worker correspondent
Ten-thousand
people marched through London on Saturday to show that the Palestinian people
are not alone in their struggle for freedom, justice and equality. Ahed Tamimi,
the Palestinian teenager jailed for eight months for slapping an Israeli
soldier who was trespassing on her family’s property, led the march along with
Labour MPs, trade union leaders and Palestine solidarity activists.
The demonstration, called by the Palestine
Solidarity Campaign and the Stop the War coalition, was held during the run-up to Nakba Day (Catastrophe Day) – which Palestinians and other Arabs commemorate
on 15 May to remember nearly a million Palestinians
who were driven out of their homes by the Zionist militias when the State of
Israel was established in 1948.
At the rally in Whitehall Palestinian
ambassador to the UK Dr Husam Zomlot stood on the stage next to Ahed Tamimi, to
tell a cheering crowd: “I see British people from the left, from the right,
from across the board. You know why? Because this is not a fight between left
and right, it’s a fight between right and wrong.”
Ahed Tamimi said she refused to be defined
as a victim, she was a freedom fighter. Richard Burgon, the Labour MP, said:
“Palestine has the right to exist but sadly that is a right that is
increasingly threatened … Palestinians should be able to live free from ever
expanding settlements on stolen land.”
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